Dugesia japonica

Dugesia japonica
Two headed D. japonica that regenerated from a trunk fragment exposed to Praziquantel.[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Suborder: Continenticola
Family: Dugesiidae
Genus: Dugesia
Species: D. japonica
Binomial name
Dugesia japonica
Ichikawa & Kawakatsu, 1964

Dugesia japonica is a species of dugesiid triclad that inhabits the freshwater bodies of East Asia.

Phylogeny

D. japonica position in relation with other Dugesia species after the work of Lázaro et al., 2009:[2]

 Dugesia 


 D. sicula



 D. aethiopica







 D. japonica




 D. ryukyuensis




 D. notogaea



 D. bengalensis








 D. subtentaculata




 D. gonocephala




 D. liguriensis




 D. etrusca



 D. ilvana







 D. benazzii



 D. hepta






References

  1. Nogi, T.; Zhang, D.; Chan, J. D.; Marchant, J. S. (2009). Keiser, Jennifer, ed. "A Novel Biological Activity of Praziquantel Requiring Voltage-Operated Ca2+ Channel β Subunits: Subversion of Flatworm Regenerative Polarity". PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 3 (6): e464. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000464. PMC 2694594. PMID 19554083.
  2. Lázaro, E. M.; Sluys, R.; Pala, M.; Stocchino, G. A.; Baguñà, J.; Riutort, M. (2009). "Molecular barcoding and phylogeography of sexual and asexual freshwater planarians of the genus Dugesia in the Western Mediterranean (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Dugesiidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52 (3): 835–845. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.04.022. PMID 19435604.
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